Subject: Portland

• Sleater-Kinney Breaks Up

  June 29, 2006

• Hugs and Kisses #38: New Bloods' Kill Rock Stars Record

  April 8, 2008

• Live: The Thermals Cover Nirvana at the Bell House

  "I Let It Go" video via TheExtremer The Thermals The Bell House Saturday, January 31 Portland mid-tempo indie-punx The Thermals would have more fun if we let them be more comfortable in regular-rocker's shoes. At a one-off show at the Bell House, they weren't too cool to dance around like goofuses when "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" came on the P.A., they weren't too cool to cover the Breeders ("Saints") and Nirvana (No Alternative's "Sappy"), and they certainly weren't too cool to bounce and

  February 2, 2009

• Slowest Nudes Day Ever

  This Twitter thing is fun. You know what Twitter people are doing today? Making up funny titles with the word "penis" in them. "Lord of The Penis: The Fellowship of the Cock Ring." "How Stella Got Her Penis Back." "Penis: Bigger, Longer, Uncut." "The Race to Black Penis!" Etc. No pictures, though. Meanwhile back at the old internet, you can survey the latest installment of the Portland Indie Film Examiner's "great moments of nudity in film" series. Or you can read a Focus on the Family writer's

  March 13, 2009

• Interview: Rapper Nipsey Hussle on West Coast Hip-Hop and Rolling Sixty Crips

  "I mean Aspen, Portland: They're on the West Coast, but for an L.A. dude it's like the middle of nowhere. We got U.S. Marshals hopping on the bus in Salt Lake City." Not since the emergence of The Game on the national hip-hop scene has Los Angeles had such a promising new rapper as Nipsey Hussle. A member of the notorious Rolling Sixty Crips from the Crenshaw and Slauson neighborhood of Los Angeles, Nipsey has--on the strength of two volumes of his Bullets Ain't Got No Name mixtape series, na

  March 20, 2009

• 'An Evening of Sensual Machine Music'

  February 4, 2009

• Hostile & Nasty

  December 13, 2005

• 'Are We Done Yet?'

  March 27, 2007

• Love, Actually, Isn't Like This

  September 18, 2007

• The Battle of Land and Sea's The Battle of Land and Sea

  Sly, dark folkies harden their hearts, soften yours

  January 8, 2008

• Critical Impasse

  February 14, 2006

• Desperate Youth

  June 20, 2006

• Tits Revisited

  January 5, 1999

• Y2K Ballet

  July 27, 1999

• Lite Show

  August 10, 1999

• Sports

  December 21, 1999

• Slaps in the Face

  From Bedroom to Polemic, Indie Stays That Way

  February 15, 2000

• Sports

  June 13, 2000

• SOLID CHROME

  May 27, 2009

• New Fort Greene Gourmet/Organic Market is Open

  January 25, 2008

• Terrors of a Subway Rider

  October 30, 2001

• Muff Diving in Our Time

  June 25, 2002

• Guys and Dolls

  March 18, 2003

• Sports

  September 23, 2003

• Notes From The Underground

  March 2, 2004

• Inarticulate Southern Rockers from Oregon Curse Corrupt Church

  December 14, 2004

• Hang Out

  May 31, 2005

• Stand Up Comics

  July 19, 2005

• In the Beginning

  May 22, 2007

• Under the Toque: Terrance Brennan's Trigo Takeover

  Terrance Brennan of Picholine and Artisanal plans to take over a struggling Trigo and turn it into Bar Artisanal. Expect bistro fare and a retail component selling olive oil, cheese and charcuterie. [NY Times] Paul Liebrandt is the only New York chef on Food & Wine's list of 2009 Best New Chefs. Other winners included Naomi Pomeroy of Beast in Portland, as well as Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo from Animal in Los Angeles. [Grub Street] New York gets a little more love from Saveur in its list of "

  April 2, 2009

• FUZZY WUZZY WAS A . . .

  July 2, 2008

• DIY Sex Toys

  July 4, 2006

• Portable Noise Pollution

  June 20, 2006

• Absalom, O Absalom

  May 23, 2006

• Basketball Courts

  December 30, 2003

• Clip Job: Obituary for a Hipster

  Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesFebruary 28, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 19Obituary for a HipsterBy Don CarpenterSAN FRANCISCO -- A quote from "The White Negro": "the unstated essence of Hip, its psychopathic brilliance, quivers with the knowledge that new kinds of victories increase one's power for new kinds of perception; and defeats, the wrong kind of defeats, attack the body and imprison one's energy until one is jailed in the prison air of other people's habits, other people'

  April 14, 2009

• The Thermals

  April 29, 2009

• Sriracha, Spotted Everywhere

  While eating with my in-laws at a stodgy fish restaurant in suburban Massachusetts, I asked the waiter for Sriracha, almost just to see what he would say. But he nodded knowingly, and brought out a dish of the red, garlicky hot sauce. That's when you know that Sriracha has hit the mainstream. That, and when Applebee's is using it to flavor fried shrimp. Over at the Times, John T. Edge has a great article about the American nature of Sriracha, and the Diners Journal blog has been searching for d

  May 20, 2009

• Viva Voce+Cut Off Your Hands

  May 27, 2009

• YACHT

  July 22, 2009

• 'Taxidermia': A Film About Gluttony From Hungary

  Gyorgy Palfi's Taxidermia was released in his native Hungary in 2006, and has only now made its way to the US. It premiered in Portland last year, and will be screened in Los Angeles and New York August 14. The fantastical storyline surrounds three generations of men, each with insatiable appetites -- be it for food or, ahem, other things -- and each somehow obsessed with their bodies. The first is a soldier and chronic masturbater, the second a morbidly obese competitive eater, and the third

  July 22, 2009

• Hey, There's A New Elliott Smith Song Called "Grand Mal"

  Pitchfork passes along an XO-outtake from the still-sadly-departed Elliott Smith. There's an interesting witch-hunt afoot at the Sweet Adeline fansite as to where the track came from and who leaked it--the whole conversation has a distinct, where'd you score, is there more, and can I maybe cop too? feel. Fair enough: "Grand Mal" is your typical blindingly sad Smith fare, with lyrics about all different kinds of falls, most of them grim. "Grand Mal paid you a call, on the avenue/ Bright white

  August 28, 2009

• David Chang and Mario Batali: So Important, So Overrated

  Grub Street surveyed members of the gastronobility to assess the "state of our food union," questioning the likes of Anthony Bourdain, Alan Richman, Gael Greene, and LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold. Unsurprisingly, New York figured largely into their appraisal: David Chang and Mario Batali were named two of the country's most important chefs (along with Grant Achatz), and also two of its most overrated. And the city itself, according to most respondents, is the most important restaurant city in the co

  August 31, 2009

• Stumptown Opening on Monday

  Madison Square Park brings news that Lower Midtown caffeine fiends have been waiting for: Stumptown's opening in the Ace Hotel this Monday. Though the Portland import is sold at an increasing number of coffee shops throughout the city, this will be its first dedicated location in the city.[Via Eater] 

  September 3, 2009

• FRUITILY DELICIOUS

  September 8, 2009

• Open: Say Hola to Cantina Latina, Los Feliz

  The long-awaited Stumptown has finally opened in the Ace Hotel. It's the only New York outpost of the Portland coffee chain, although you can get Stumptown coffee at a number of restaurants and cafes, including Cafe Pedlar (both in Brooklyn and now in the LES). [Eater] Cantina Latina is opening in the East Village with 100 seats and a Mexican and Cuban-inspired menu, including tacos and a take on the Cuban sandwich. A selection of tequilas, mescals, and rums, are on the drinks list, along with

  September 11, 2009

• Ramona Falls

  September 15, 2009

• New Venue Report: South Williamsburg's The Woods

  PIx by Puja Patel, more below​Nestled beneath the Williamsburg Bridge (a charming view) (no, really), long-rumored nightlife spot the Woods finally opened its doors Friday night to an overwhelming response. Located at 48 South 4th Street, the bar has no sign over the door; a set of stairs and swarm of people was the only indications of its existence. (Despite all the buzz, no one was sure where--or what--this place would actually be.) When we arrived at 9 p.m., a sign read "free beer 'til

  October 5, 2009

• There Is A Karp Documentary

  What's the hold up on the long-rumored documentary about one of the more underrated and unapologetically gully bands of the 1990s? Documentary filmmaker Bill Badgley needs money. He's been holding benefits all month on the "Portland-to-Seattle corridor," according to the Seattle Weekly. The above trailer has been around for a while, though it was updated recently. We are on record as having no affection for the swift canonization of our own youth and youth culture. That said, Karp--the Olympia

  October 27, 2009

• Thao & the Get Down Stay Down+Portland Cello Project

  November 3, 2009